Coming Soonish: The Playstation 4. Now locked down with so many security measures and so closed off, actually getting to play your games is an actual chore. Playstation 4. It only does WHAT WE SAY IT DOES. Thanks, hackers.
[QUOTE="GunSmith1_basic"]You're very pessimistic! In particular the skills thing. Reducing the amount of skills makes it a better game imo. I would say it even makes it a deeper game. That sounds contradictory, but shallow rpgs often clog up your stats with many, many skills (if you don't believe me just look at sports games, which have the longest lists of skills you can get in a game). If they take the game seriously with real and purposeful design, then you strive for that chess ideal - easy to learn, difficult to masterCherokee_Jack
Oh, I'm being optimistic here. I gave them the benefit of the doubt even though I know they could be lying about everything.
I agree with you that more complication doesn't equal more rewarding gameplay, but I'm not super confident that they're going to simplify things gracefully. It's easy for designers to go crazy with the streamlining and lose sight of what an RPG really is, and what their audience (including consolites) is capable of understanding.
I wouldn't say you've given them the benefit of the doubt when the 3 things you say you dislike, you dislike based on assumptions you've made about them with no backing.
[QUOTE="RavenLoud"] Now, I think that considering the fact that Activision is now using tactics such as delaying the lawsuit in order to suck Respawn dry, I highly doubt that they are very confident on this case. Why would people actually back them up after reading the OP? If Activision has clear evidence of Zampella misconducting, why wouldn't they want to just finish with it, and prehaps clear their name? I'd actually like to hear what they think. Maybe. Or maybe they have evidence, but rather than ruining the careers of everyone at Respawn, they want them to step down so they can retain their dignity.
I'm pro Activision on this case as well. It looks like the Respawn team was having some pretty shady meetings with EA behind the scenes.
GojiMaster
Seems like Activision is in the right on this one.
UnknownElement4
What. The. Eff. Do you guys even know what's going on? Nope. They don't. And neither do you. People are so fast to demonize Activision because they're the "big, evil company" and side with West and Zampella cos they're the cool underdogs. You really think that in all of this they've done nothing wrong, and a multi million dollar company is only sueing them for some sort of petty revenge? All we tend to hear is that Activision is making allegations, and Respawn is suffering for it. We assume it's because Activision is evil, not that all this controversy is actually guaranteed to make Respawn entertainment into a highly popular company, whereas if West and Zampella just left to start their own company, most people would not know who they are. In this story, they're the underdogs. People love a good underdog story, and it's going to make them very, very rich. They have the support of pretty much everyone here, and we have no idea what's really going on.
I loved Uncharted 2 when it came out. Every time I see a post saying "ooo it looks like Uncharted Uncharted is better blah blah blah drake drake drake" I like it a little less. Tomb Raider is about exploring and puzzle solving. Uncharted is about amazing set pieces and great graphics, interspersed with dull, repetative gunplay. Seriously, that's why I gave up during my second playthrough.
Yay! A feature which should have been standard since the N64 days! I don't understand all these threads about split screen like it's some amazing new innovation. We shouldn't praise developers for including it, we should be annoyed that they don't. And I know, on the topic of VERTICAL split screen, I remember back in Perfect Dark you could choose between vertical and horizontal. How is it that Perfect Dark is still miles more advanced than every single modern game in terms of content? Why was Perfect Dark not used as the basis for all multiplayer games and then built on?
Online gaming on consoles has only really been around this gen. Why do we assume it should be free and Microsoft charge for it? Why do we not assume that it should be charged for but Sony give it to us for free?
........You sir have no soul. Now I may not be the biggest RDR fan or think it's the greatest game ever, but it's a fact that ending was fantastic. True, you may of hated the game for not giving control over John in the story but it made it up in the end on that farm with your family. The fact that John went through all that hell for his son Jake, to try and raise him right and be as close as possible with him in those last mission of the game only for the government that made go through that hell to come for him and shoot him down like a dog in the street as he was protecting his family is one of the greatest endings I've ever seen. Rockstar showed how much John felt for his wife and family, not through his action alone,but with words and feeling with the family mission. And with that ending....well the first part of the ending....I was struck with the deeps of anger and regret. And With Jake with the final"do you remember my family " mission I hunted the bastard that put Jake father to hell and back and killed and put 20 bullets in his head. And then it hit me ans the game closed out. John never wanted Jack to live like that......and so with the end of the game, every thing John went through to try to ensure that Jake had a better life than he did when out window and all John efforts were in vain.
So with that end...The beautiful deep fantastic end.....It is no doubt it one of the greats ending ever. So say what you want about the rest of the grind box game..........But don't say one I'll word about the ending or I'll question if you know how to feel to be anyones son.
dreman999
Oh my god. The ending was **** If RDR was a movie, i could forgive it, hell, I could maybe even like it. But in a video game it's just cheating to rip control away from the player in exchange for some "deep, meaningful" ending. You know how John Marston's efforts wouldn't have been in vain? If he hadn't sacrificed himself for nothing. Go ahead and give me some **** about how he knew his family would never be safe, but did he know that? Did he just assume that because the government found them, on their ranch, where they live, 5 minutes down the road from where the goverment is, that somehow, they wont be safe anywhere? Like, even in Mexico, where he has "friends" now? Like. anywhere else in America, or the entire world? Don't give me some **** about the ending being "beautiful and poignant" when any other possible ending would be much better. John Marston did not need to die, Rockstar wanted him to die so they could force some stupid ending on you to try and get some sort of emotional reaction. Clearly they succeded for some people, but me? I'm pissed off. It just adds to the long list of characters who sacrifice themselves unnecessarily- a tired, ridiculous storytelling technique used solely to get a reaction. It's like you're playing the mentor character in an action movie. I could forgive it if there really were overwhelming odds, if there were waves and waves of people coming after you, if you have the option of fighting until you run out of ammo, or just standing up and getting shot. That I could forgive. That would have meaning, because YOU, the PLAYER, in the VIDEO GAME, get to choose how you go down, rather than having some wannabe screenwriter tack on his movie ending.
[QUOTE="bobbetybob"][QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]Uncharted will crush tomb raider. I mena how many attempts have hteir been to revitalize the franchise? Uncharted is fresh and still steam rolling They released 6 games without revitalizing it, then they made Anniversary and Legend which were reboots, and now they're rebooting it again. They look like pretty different games now, Tomb Raider seems like it could be going down a horror route which would be awesome IMO, monsters in caving go hand in hand perfectly if you ask me, claustrophobic environments and noises that come from nowhere. How is Legend a reboot? If Legend is a reboot, so is Resident Evil 4, so is Hitman Blood Money, so are many other games which ARENT REBOOTS!! I liked Uncharted 2, but I find it rather overrated on here. Yes, it's got amazing graphics, and yes, it's very cinematic, but I got bored of all the shooting parts which weren't very fun, and the story, while well told, is really predictable and cliched. The new Tomb Raider sounds far more interesting.
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